Aurora displays known as the northern and southern lights are commonly visible near the poles, where charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's atmosphere.

On Tuesday, the sun launched its largest solar flare in seven years and the largest of the ongoing 11-year solar cycle. It marks the culmination of an excessively busy period for our closest star.

A solar flare is an explosion of radiation that is produced by the sun and can result in solar storms Recently, the same powerful solar storm that created the bewildering Northern Lights seen ...

A solar flare on New Year's Eve, rated as an X-5, was the largest detected since the 2017 eclipse, when a X8.2 flare X8.2 flare occurred, according to NOAA. Solar flares are only expected to ...

According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts, there is an 80 percent chance of the sunspot producing an M-class solar flare on ... umbra—the dark central part of ...

Sunspot AR3757 erupted with an M1-class solar flare and a plasma plume. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta I Asked 6 Chefs ...

More intense solar storms just drive the polar lights closer to the Equator. Still, solar flares are complex phenomena with real hazards for Earth, even this far away from the Sun. A solar flare ...

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If a solar flare reaches Earth, it could trigger minor, but disruptive geomagnetic storms. A dark filament of magnetism whipped out of the sun's atmosphere on July 16, Space Weather reported.